variation on my refilling effort, seems to be faster

[jimbo123]

been refilling for nearly 7 years now. trying out a variation on my refilling effort. i'm pretty sure this has been mentioned here before but passing it on to those who are new or who may have missed it. see below

- when one cart needs to be refilled, i take all ink carts out
- first reset them all
- second refill or top them off
- lastly put them back in and run a nozzle check(if i remember)

if i think it's going to take a while i'll cut the power to the printer so to keep the print head in the middle

each time you open lid or turn off/on, it runs a cleaning cycle for every cart so best to fill a bunch instead of just one cart

seems to be faster

J

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[The Hat]

Yes Jim it has been mentioned before lots of times, but it doesn’t do any harm to mention it again, again and again, in fact you could apply for a sticky from Rob, then it would be one of the first posts that a newbie would read here.

This procedure makes perfect sense to me and it sure does save an awful lot of ink so it should be included in the top ten tips..

 

[martin0reg]

The amount of ink used by cleaning cycles seems to be not that large to me:
- timer cleaning (nearly every other day) 0.14 - 1.00 ml of pbk and color
- ink tank replacement: 0.30 / 1.00 ml of pbk/color
- manual: 0.14 / 0.50
- deep: 1.50 / 1.00
(see ip4000 service manual p28 for details)

 

[stratman]

The amount of ink used by cleaning cycles seems to be not that large to me

This is especially true for refillers BUT I still want to delay the dreaded "ink absorber full" message as long as possible and is why I follow the same process as jimbo123 (except for the nozzle check).

 

[Smile]

I think having second set is better as nozzles on print head have no time to dry, just replace whole set and then refill the other one without any hurry.

 

[jtoolman]

That's exactly what I used to do when I only have one set of ink carts for a particular printer. Now I simply pull out all the partially used carts and pop in a reset / filled set.
Then reset and fill the pulled set at my leisure.

Actually the CANON printer do not run a purge cycle when you just open the lid. Only if you remove and reinsert a Cart. At least mine do not.

Joe

 

[ThrillaMozilla]

My HP does not purge if you remove and replace the same cartridge. That trick has many uses.

 

[PeterBJ]

jtoolman's observation suggests that Canon printers behave the same way. But a resat Canon cartridge is seen as a new cartridge by the printer and so triggers a cartridge change purging.

 

[ThrillaMozilla]

Actually, jtoolman specifically said it purges if you remove and replace a cartridge. If it's true, that's unfortunate. It means that you can't check on a cartridge by taking it out and weighing it, which I absolutely have to be able to do because I can't reset the cartridges. You guys with Canons will just have to try it, I guess. Come to think of it, I'm not sure why I posted that information. It seems to be one of the few advantages of an HP.

 

[The Hat]

@ThrillaMozilla, there you go, even I can learn something new on this forum once in a while, I didn’t know there was any advantage in having a HP printer..